Catalyst Ranch’s
Creative Juice Blog
BIG BEN 3D Puzzle Hey there, sports fans! Are you disappointed that you were not able to be in London for the Olympic Games this year? Well, cheer up friends, because the Ranch is offering you the chance to bring a little piece of London into your own home! During the month of August, you can [...]
Chicago is a wonderful city with a flourishing arts scene. With so many aspiring filmmakers to pass through our ranks and having collaborated with established filmmakers on other projects, we were inspired this past spring to help celebrate them. Local Feature came from that inspiration. We're very excited to launch this new film series that celebrates [...]
From Drab to Fab... the Catalyst Ranch design team does it again. Dessa, our 2012 spring winner, now happily enjoys her newly improved desk. Dessa vocalized a desire that one wall of her long cubicle be an area of inspiration for her when she's working on projects. We addressed this aspect of the design by creating [...]
We've had a great first week of June at Catalyst Ranch, with events like Using Storytelling to Better Connect with your Audience with Esther Choy and tonight's Socially Smart & Savvy book release with Sharon Ringier. We're very lucky to have some amazing thought leaders to collaborate with and it's very appropriate that our June calendar [...]
Catalyst Ranch’s Monthly Giveaway Prize May 2012 Keyed by Noodle Your IQ® & Tetra Scales – The Museum CollectionParadigm Puzzle This month the Ranch is giving you the opportunity to win 2, that’s right - TWO prizes - when you enter our Monthly Giveaway Drawing during the month of May! Challenge your mind to develop new [...]
As a world explorer, Pogo has visited many exotic places but none quite as special as Egypt, the Great Pyramids and the Valley of the Kings. One day I hope to visit those same sites to see these wonders first hand. The most intriguing story of ancient Egyptian pharaohs that has captured my interest is that [...]
Creative Courtney Rickard of Wirestone was our 2011 Winter New Year New Cubicle winner. She wowed us with her creative holiday card where she and her fiancé dressed as figure skaters. Check out her inspiration and our runner ups fun take at our contest here! Courtney works with a whole creative crew, so we instantly knew [...]
When Warhol first exhibited his thirty–two canvases in 1962, each one simultaneously hung from the wall like a painting and rested on a shelf like groceries in a store. The number of canvases corresponds to the varieties of soup then sold by the Campbell Soup Company. Warhol assigned a different flavor to each painting, referring to [...]
Found and Repurposed by Catalyst Ranch Maybe you had a great brainstorming session here at Catalyst Ranch and want to continue in that creative direction but need some help keeping the energy going? Or maybe your office is just drab and could use some Shazam? Either way, any office or desk could use a little pick [...]
Here is a collection of work that just breathes new life into something old. Exactly what we like to see! Artist Sean Avery has come up with what is without a doubt an amazing use for old CDs. Instead of selling his old CDs, he creates stunning animal sculptures using shattered shards and imagination. Using a [...]